SpellbookMaster 1.3 for iPhone

Spells at your fingertips. Literally.

SpellbookMaster for iPhone/iPod touch makes it easy to find spells fast and see detailed information for spells.

You can browse spells by name, class, level and domain.

To get you started, SpellbookMaster can automatically import d20 System Reference spells from the Wizards of the Coast website and also Pathfinder reference spells from www.d20pfsrd.com. You can also import your spells from another iPhone or a Mac running SpellbookMaster 2.2.

Choose all spells, spells grouped by schools, levels or classes from the bottom bar. Navigate to a spell or group contents just by tapping it in the list.

Features

• Read full spell information.
• Browse spells by name, spell caster class, spell level, spell school/domain.
• Search spells.
• Import your custom spells from a text file on the Internet.
• Automatically import reference spells from the Internet.
• Download spellbooks from other iPhones or the Mac app.
• Share your spellbooks to others using SpellbookMaster on their iPhones.
• Supports spells in d20 3.5 (a.k.a. Dungeons & Dragons v3.5) and Pathfinder formats.
• Supports both iPhone and iPod touch.
  Requires OS 3.0 or later.

What’s new in 1.3

Submitted to the App Store on Aug 29th 2010.

• Pathfinder support, including reference spells import.
• Ability share your spellbooks to others using the iPhone app.
• Minor fixes and improvements.

What’s new in 1.2

Submitted to the App Store on Nov 30th 2009.

• Ability to import spells as text files from the Internet.
• Searching.
• Handling of paragraph breaks in imported spell descriptions. Please re-import d20 SRD spells.
• Minor fixes and improvements.

What’s new in 1.1

Submitted to the App Store on January 2nd 2009.

• Spell list shows spell's class and level in addition to name.
• Color coded app tabs (Spells, Schools, Levels and Classes) for ease of use.
• Added switch to toggle between sorting spells by name or by level in class view. This feature helps when you want to see, for example, all Cleric spells of 5th level.
• Fixed issue where previous spell might be briefly visible when viewing info for a spell.
• Minor fixes and improvements.

Instructions

Getting Started

The first thing you'll need after launching SpellbookMaster on your iPhone is spellbooks.

• Tap the Spellbooks button on the top left corner of the screen.
• Tap the Download d20 Reference button at the bottom the screen. This will automatically start downloading d20 System Reference spells from the Wizards of the Coast website.
  Or tap the Download Pathfinder Reference button to download Pathfinder reference spells from www.d20pfsrd.com.
• Wait for a few moments, because downloading and processing the files takes some time. Then you're done and can start browsing spells!.

Spell Categories

SpellbookMaster has four categories you can use to browse your spells. The categories are Spells, Schools, Levels and Classes. They are accessible from the bottom of screen.

Spells lists all your spells alphabetically. Tap on a spell name to see its detailed information.

Schools lists all your spells grouped by school or domain. Tap on a school to see all the spells it contains.

Levels lists all your spells grouped by level. Spells may be grouped into multiple levels if they are of different level for diffedifferentrent caster classes.

Classes lists all your spells grouped by caster class or domain. Tap on a class to see all the spells available to it. When viewing spells for a class, you can tap on the top-right corner to change listing the spells grouped by name or level.

Spellbooks Screen

Spellbooks screen is used to select the active spellbook and manage your spellbooks. Tap the Spellbooks button in the upper left corner of the app to show this screen.

Selecting Active Spellbook

Choose active spellbook simply by tapping it. You can also choose a spell collection instead of all the spells in a spellbook, if the spellbook downloaded from a Mac contained collections.

Spellbooks can be deleted permanently simply by swiping from left to right and pressing the delete button when it appears. Note that you can't delete spell collections.

Downloading Shared Spellbooks

SpellbookMaster can download spellbooks from other iPhones running SpellbookMaster. Also, if you have a Mac and SpellbookMaster 2.2 on it, you can share spellbooks from your Mac to SpellbookMaster on your iPhone.

Tap the Download Shared Spellbooks button. A list of servers (Macs or other iPhones) appears with the name of the files on them. Then tap on the spellbook you want to download. When it has been downloaded, you're done and can start browsing spells.

Your iPhone must be on the same Wi-Fi network as the other iPhone or Mac for sharing to work.

Remember to open up SpellbookMaster 2.2 on the Mac and choose Document Sharing... from the File menu when importing spells from a Mac. Read more from the SpellbookMaster manual.

Sharing Your Spellbooks

Tap Share your Spellbooks in the Spellbooks screen to share all your spellbooks with other SpellbookMaster users that are connected to the same Wi-Fi network. You must be in this screen for others to download spells from your iPhone.

Downloading Spellbooks from Text Files

To import your custom spells choose Download from Internet. Enter address or select a previously entered address.

This feature allows you to import your own spells if you don't have a Mac (and can't use SpellbookMaster for the Mac) or if you wish to share spells you've created yourself to others.

The text file should have similar format to the spell descriptions in the d20 SRD files or this sample file: Spellbook.txt. For Pathfinder spells, use format similar to this sample file: PathfinderSpellbook.txt. Use UTF8 character encoding and Unix line endings (LF). Don't use Windows Latin-1 encoding or Windows line endings (CR+LF)

Downloading d20 Reference Spells

You can download the d20 System Reference spells from the Wizards of the Coast website just by tapping the Download d20 Reference button.

Downloading Pathfinder Reference Spells

Tap the Download Pathfinder Reference button to download Pathfinder reference spells from www.d20pfsrd.com.

Checking Application Version

Lastly on the Spellbooks screen is the version number of the application.